African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross"Into The Fire (1861-1896)"
During the tumultuous period of the Civil War, African Americans were agents of their liberation - by fleeing plantations and taking up arms to serve in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, they sought to realize the promise of freedom and for a brief time during Reconstruction, they gained economic, political and civil rights. But an intransigent South mounted a campaign of terror to restore white supremacy in the former Confederate states. Part 3 of 6G

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Service: When Women Come Marching Home
SERVICE takes the audience on a journey from the deserts of Afghanistan to rural Tennessee and from Iraq to urban New York City. It shows women functioning as fully accepted and contributing members of a military unit as well as the devastating isolation and persecution of those who report rape. We see these women as veterans fighting to find homes, demanding services, responding to therapy and gaining their independence. D